What's the difference between reticence and shyness?

Reticence


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness.
  • (n.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The simple answer: absolutely no.” The reticence of others to publicly support her had been disheartening at times.
  • (2) And as for his much-feted reticence and unwillingness to be made into a 'personality' himself well, you'd have to say that was the icing on the cake.
  • (3) San Dhillon, the executive director at Exane BNP Paribas, saidBT has been “reticent and hesitant” to offer remedies that would truly make Openreach independent.
  • (4) He developed a parallel career as a rock video director after mentioning in a meeting with record label and film company Warp that he loved the Arctic Monkeys, and ended up directing a string of videos for them (given the band's legendary reticence, the mind boggles at what the initial meeting was like) as well as Vampire Weekend , Kasabian and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs .
  • (5) I want this to happen in a consensual, sensible, non-inflammatory way and that's why I've been so reticent about it."
  • (6) The famously reticent Tartt has not given an interview about herself or her writing for a decade.
  • (7) Ophthalmologists have shown some reticence to having the entire bony support of the medial wall of the orbit and half the floor removed.
  • (8) I’m not talking about a reticence that would be linked to a physical problem, I’m talking about the heart that’s not quite in it anymore.
  • (9) I’m still not sure we were right to take it off.” The British have always been less comfortable accepting labels than the Americans but there’s much more to Benner’s reticence and Thompson’s unease around the term than that.
  • (10) Le Pen’s campaign, which begins in earnest in February, will depend heavily on Philippot’s claim that he can neutralise hostility and win over reticent parts of the electorate.
  • (11) My colleague is still very reticent at attending the very international conferences she should be going to in order to become a successful academic.
  • (12) There is unlikely to be such reticence from the Football Association towards the Goodison club after numerous objects were thrown at Suárez in the closing minutes.
  • (13) Shelvey’s only previous cap came in October 2012 against San Marino, as a 66th-minute substitute, and he has spent long periods out of contention, not helped by his apparent attitude when he was playing for England’s Under-21s and, according to Hodgson, the midfielder was reticent to be involved with Gareth Southgate’s team.
  • (14) Owing to the breakdown of the Libyan state and reticence from the Tunisian government they sometimes go undocumented.
  • (15) The Retics, NRBC and other red blood cell indices do not differ from those of neonates reported from other parts of the world.
  • (16) The evidence suggests that more timely, targeted training around the culture of knowledge brokering in the formative years could help to overcome this reticence.
  • (17) People who have invested more in Hillary’s campaign are understandably reluctant to defect, if you will, before there’s something to defect to.” He added: “I would say there is a big shift.” The reticence of such donors to speak publicly, let alone switch their money yet, speaks to the nervousness of these next few days for the Draft Biden movement, particularly as Tuesday’s first Democratic debate is likely to come and go without their candidate on the stage.
  • (18) If she’d turned over the records it would have put an end to it pretty early.” Clinton’s hankering for privacy should not be confused with reticence.
  • (19) These results suggest that the problems of faulty memory and conceptual confusion about serious events can be overcome with careful question wording and administration procedures, but that the problem of respondent reticence about reporting sensitive events remains unresolved.
  • (20) Unless a concrete reason was present, Danish medical students were very reticent concerning discussion of the injurious effects of smoking with patients.

Shyness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being shy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Strachan, whose shyness is routinely disguised by attempts at comedy, responded with a wave.
  • (2) The results revealed that shyness and social phobia have a number of similar features.
  • (3) Examination of a number of major studies of personality questionnaires reveals the existence of a shyness factor which is related to but separable from both introversion and neuroticism, and which loads on items referring to feeling uncomfortable and self-conscious, and keeping in the background in certain kinds of social situations.
  • (4) Animals receiving low-intensity electrical stimulation of the basolateral nucleus of the amygdala while drinking plain tap water were injected with toxic doses of lithium chloride to examine whether brain stimulation can serve as a conditioned stimulus in a bait-shyness paradigm.
  • (5) Furthermore, profiles of emotions experienced by youths with a depressive disorder differed significantly from emotion profiles of nondepressed youths on the following emotions: enjoyment, surprise, sadness, anger, shame, shyness, guilt, and self-directed hostility.
  • (6) They have an outrageously provocative nature that's combined with real shyness and awkwardness.
  • (7) Previously proposed personality correlates of passivity, shyness, and dependency were also in evidence.
  • (8) In conversation, he is a curious mix of openness and a sweet, faintly diffident shyness.
  • (9) Unexpectedly, the shyness of adolescents highly sensitive to an imaginary audience increased with age, possibly because they are unwilling to provide themselves with the social experiences necessary for decentering.
  • (10) Compared with findings in manic subjects, the dimensional score for Harm Avoidance was elevated in all affective groups, "worry and pessimism" was elevated in mixed-state subjects, "shyness with strangers" was elevated in depressed and nonaffective subjects, and "attachment" was lower in depressed and nonaffective subjects.
  • (11) Twenty-three volunteer subjects were compared with 23 (matched) control subjects on self and parental ratings of anxiety, depression, shyness-sensitivity, sleeping difficulties, perfectionism, psychosomatic problems (unrelated to headache), other behavioural disturbances, major life stress events and parental expectations (i.e.
  • (12) Love-shyness is believed to be the result of a genetic-biologically rooted temperament and learning experiences with peers and family.
  • (13) His teachers made accommodations for his painful shyness and he graduated with the grades and test scores that got him into Virginia Tech.
  • (14) These results support the self-presentational view that fear of being socially evaluated is pivotal to dispositional shyness.
  • (15) Discussion focuses on the implications of these data for the measurement and conceptualization of shyness.
  • (16) All the children presented psychological alterations, especially misanthropy and shyness.
  • (17) Sex differences in the strategic use of shyness are discussed in relation to other research on sex differences in the etiology and correlates of social anxiety.
  • (18) Sending ability was positively related to teacher's ratings of activity level, aggressiveness, impulsiveness, bossiness, sociability, etc., and negatively related ti shyness, cooperation, emotional inhibition and control, etc.
  • (19) These findings suggest that the construct of shyness shows a strong continuity from preschool age through adulthood.
  • (20) Phase 2 compared the five shyness measures with one another on indices of internal consistency and with other relevant measures of emotionality, personality, relationships, and behavior.